Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-11-05

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about the house and garden, when one OF
the depot hands came running up the
path, calling for him.
a. Mr.. Harding wants Won Instantly,
Jackv cried the man. The Jersey ex-
press should have left the depot live
minutes ago, aud the engineer has Just
fallen down IN fit. Curtis and Fitch
are both of on leave, and MIR. Harding
saws there's nobody left but you that
he'll trust with the train
81. II cried Jack. in maze. The
Jersey cxpressl And | never drove
ANYTHING but freight trainF
s..Well,' cried the man impatiently, |
don't stop to arguel Orders 10 orders, |
and here Is a minute and half gone
already
.Jack seemed to come to himself at
! that. He darted one smile at me. and
was of like shot, drawing ON his coat
| as he ran. In less time than ! take in
telling. / heard the signal OF the out
going train, and knew that my boy was
! trusted with a task that was used to be
given only TO the most intelligent and
careful men in the service.
i They brought him back 10 me that
night, sir, and laid him on his fathers
bed; and by piece-meal. and then after
wards. / learned what had happened
that day.
sEThe train. starting out SO late, they
were forced TO make up time some
where on the line. So. on that long.
straight stretch of track through the
valley. they were making sixty miles
an honr. The train fairly flew. Jack
could feel the air strike h $ face like
sharp wind, tho it was balmy spring
day.
:sThen an awful thing happened
The great connecting rod of the driy-
ing wheel on the right of the engine
broke. Jack seemed TO live all his life
over In that one terrible instant when
he saw tile end of the rod swinging up
ward. 1t struck the cab under him
and dashed il into thousand pieces,
and ne knew no more till horrible
agony awoke him where he had fallen
senselcss on the engine.
Burned and almost blind, with the
flesh scaldcd and torn from his hands,
!, he remembered his engine. with its
open throttle leaping ON TO certain
destruction. He seemed to see the pas
= scngers inside the long train, as Sc
! many tines in the old days when he
!, called the morning papers through the
4 cars.
= He knew how they looked and what
= they we're do ng. smok ng. talking o.
= the elections, the price of grain or how
I. stock went up last week; women, witt
! growing. dimpled babies in their arms
7 little children crowding to the windows
vainly trying 10 count the whizznt
telegraph poles; young, happy peopl
- going on wedding journeys, maybe
= and others coming home who had beef
= very long away.
HE remembered that. as he hurrie'
:, to his place at the front, that day,
= little girl with cloud of golden hal
IA had leaned from car window to CIV
!, one more goodbye kiss 10 her fathc
!. on the platform. Take good care G
!, mamma, darling. he heard the gentle
"a man say.
- .sThe iireman-no coward, either
"a was Tim HANDBOOK. with wife an
babies at home-let himself down fror
a. the tender aud escaped So might m
=, Jack have done. But he crept alOn
M the side of the leaping engine; car
fully and painfully he swung himse
~ into his place. and with every motto
~ of his hands an untold agony, he r.
: yersed the engine and put on the a
~ brake.
10 Then the train stopped. snatch'
- back from the pits mouth. and th'
If took my boy from his post faithf
nv and trner
~ lit was a long time before Jack
az burns were healed. The road peop
came often to see him-no men cou
&c have ever been kinder and every we,
~ off with him. / had hardly heard I
- gate click, when the door opened agai
No and Jenny Brown came in like spirit
tar ".Quick! quick Mrs Burton! Z
on your bonnet she whispered.
. Where? What do you meang
III, said, for was frightened.
ON I" TO the meeting? Hurry, or
.be shall be too later
~ ..She was tying my bonnet strin
III under my chin as she spoke; and $
roy had the house door locked and me do
the garden path and out of the ba
,ad gate fairly without my will. She h'
me ried me across the square, and tn
n pushed me through the crowd arou
for the hall entrance.
~, II was out of breath with nervo
Ian ness and fast walking, SO we sat do'
n in back scat. The room was Il
NO There were great many ladies the
and on the platform sat the super
- tendent and several OF the d rectors
ore the road. Everybody seemed to
oro whispering ard smiling and look
,ron backward toward the door. and lo'
srs ed, too. although l did not know W
a. ssThen the door opened, and III
,y,s came i'm with Tom. heard somebC
nad on the other side of me VIII sper. Tbs
for hint and another aud another, an'
rustic crept through the place. {
~, then, all at once, such a cheer went
,ord ms, can truly say. never heard in
ana nv life before-no. not even when
ar troops came home from war.
40. people stood mp, and the ladies way
their handkerchiefs.
hon, The superintendent tried to spe
i ba and raped on his little table. but al
ana vain, until the crowd had had Il
,axt three times three.
iear ..And through il all watched
boy. He looked around him. daze,
80. first by all the tumult, aud try ing
,;ss see what it meant Wherever he nj
han turn his eyes he met hundred OIL
smiling ON him. and score OF la
,,,, stretched out to him as he passe
rain and. all at once he knew.
ooh, sir, cannot tell you abou
ool, How they carried him up to the tr
II 20 though not on the platform-ther'
would not go-how they found me
/, 10 and made me sit beside him; how 4
,bole were speeches and hand,shakings
was laughing and crying.